I have noticed a slant in Candia Dames’ reporting and opinion pieces over the past year that all seem meant to provoke some commentary by the former prime minister, drawing him back into national discourse.

In The Bahamas, you don’t really ever have to do anything you say you’ll do. All you have to do is issue a “press release” and then the ignorant masses forget about whatever it was that was supposed to happen.

Those who view the criticism of persons who hold “high public office,” as disrespecting the institutions of the country or even the country itself, are traitors to the Bahamian people and are not friends of democracy.